The humble Bamboo plant is at the center of a social and ecological revolution in India. Bamboo House India is a social enterprise providing sustainable livelihood opportunities to rural and tribal artisans in the bamboo sector through business models designed to work at base of the economic pyramid and promote bamboo as an eco friendly substitute to wood, steel, iron & plastic.Bamboo applications featured on their website range from bamboo pens to bamboo t-shirts to bamboo laptops to bamboo speakers to bamboo soap. Bamboo House India is working on setting up a chain of exclusive bamboo showrooms across the country and commercialse IIT-Delhi’s bamboo bow beam technology for rural housing.
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